Run VCR tests using GA provider for GA-only PRs

[melinath]

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Some PRs (like making something GA) only modify the GA provider. However, we currently only run tests on the beta provider. This can end up introducing bugs into the GA provider that would have been caught by VCR tests (if they had been run). It would be great if we could detect this case (i.e. changes to GA provider go code but not to beta provider go code) and run VCR tests for the GA provider instead of beta.

This is somewhat related to: #9147, in a way.

[rileykarson]

Notes: Figuring out a GA-only PR is difficult. We could consider a rule like "if go files are altered in ga and not beta, run at ga".

[melinath]

We may want to run GA VCR tests on all PRs, which would make a duplicate of #13170

[melinath]

We should just run GA VCR on all PRs that modify the GA provider.

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